Month: August 2022

Kosovo: EU Application by End of 2022

Kosovo wants to apply for membership in the EU, the Council of Europe, and NATO, but not all EU members recognize Kosovarian independence, which will be an obstacle hard to overcome.

UK: New Price Hike Promises Bleak Winter for Consumers

The announcement comes only days before PM Boris Johnson’s successor is announced. Johnson has thus far undertaken little action in resolving the crisis, leaving this farrago for the next prime minister to untangle instead. 

Nearly One Million Ukrainians Have Fled to Germany

The proportion of Ukrainian refugees who are women and children stands in stark contrast with the high percentage of young adult men received across Europe during the migrant crisis of 2015 and 2016.

Lukashenko: If Provoked, We Will Use Nuclear Weapons

The Belarusian leader touted his country’s fighter jets, now retrofitted with nuclear weapons. While Belarus has no nuclear arsenal of its own, after a referendum held earlier this year, it receives nuclear weaponry from its Russian ally.

Swedish Conservatives on the Rise

The Swedish Democrats have edged out the moderate party as the largest in the four-party center-right coalition.

Irony-Poisoned: Against the Online Content Mill

We are addicted to snarky commentary and the daily-churning of vacuous novelty. We won’t really be champions of anything like ‘tradition’ so long as we remain mired in these postmodern poisons.

Nearly One Million Ukrainians Have Fled to Germany

Nearly One Million Ukrainians Have Fled to Germany

The proportion of Ukrainian refugees who are women and children stands in stark contrast with the high percentage of young adult men received across Europe during the migrant crisis of 2015 and 2016.

August 28, 2022
Lukashenko: If Provoked, We Will Use Nuclear Weapons

Lukashenko: If Provoked, We Will Use Nuclear Weapons

The Belarusian leader touted his country’s fighter jets, now retrofitted with nuclear weapons. While Belarus has no nuclear arsenal of its own, after a referendum held earlier this year, it receives nuclear weaponry from its Russian ally.

August 28, 2022
Swedish Conservatives on the Rise

Swedish Conservatives on the Rise

The Swedish Democrats have edged out the moderate party as the largest in the four-party center-right coalition.

August 28, 2022
Nazism in Ukraine? A Short History of Russian Propaganda

Nazism in Ukraine? A Short History of Russian Propaganda

President Vladimir Putin has vowed to “de-Nazify” Ukraine. To understand the Kremlin’s propaganda, we must go back to the Second World War and even earlier.

August 28, 2022
FORGOTTEN CLASSICS: <br>Warfare, Emptiness, and Hope in Waugh’s <em>Sword of Honor</em>

FORGOTTEN CLASSICS: <br>Warfare, Emptiness, and Hope in Waugh’s <em>Sword of Honor</em>

Waugh’s trilogy approaches war with a transcendent hope that is capable of withstanding the slings and arrows of modernity without losing itself.

August 27, 2022
Irony-Poisoned: Against the Online Content Mill

Irony-Poisoned: Against the Online Content Mill

We are addicted to snarky commentary and the daily-churning of vacuous novelty. We won’t really be champions of anything like ‘tradition’ so long as we remain mired in these postmodern poisons.

August 27, 2022
Church Fires and Anti-Christian Discrimination in Egypt

Church Fires and Anti-Christian Discrimination in Egypt

Legislative impediments to building and repairing churches in Egypt exist within a general climate of increasing violence against Copts.

August 27, 2022
Too Young to Lead

Too Young to Lead

The point with the minimum age is not the number, but the notion that statesmanship is a slowly acquired asset. It takes time to build the experience, the skills, and all the intangible qualities that the leader of a nation must possess.

August 27, 2022
Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar: Part III, Suicide

Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar: Part III, Suicide

The final in a three-part series exploring Shakespeare’s engagement with pagan/Roman morality in Julius Caesar, this essay looks at suicide in the play.

August 27, 2022
Why Amazon’s “The Rings of Power” is an Unlikely Omen of Hope

Why Amazon’s “The Rings of Power” is an Unlikely Omen of Hope

When I first heard Elendil’s line in the third teaser trailer, “The past is dead, we either move forward or die with it,” I became fixated with the whole carnival surrounding Amazon’s billion dollar creative venture—how could it be that J.R.R. Tolkien, a Tridentine-Mass-loving skeptic of modernity was providing the aesthetic and imaginative fuel of woke intersectionalists and activist ideologues in Hollywood?

August 26, 2022
Danish Terror Suspects Face Court

Danish Terror Suspects Face Court

According to the newspaper BT, this is one of the largest terror-related court cases in Danish history.

August 26, 2022
Macron Forsees ‘End of Abundance’

Macron Forsees ‘End of Abundance’

Disconnecting wifi and household appliances, while reducing energy-consuming climate control mechanisms may come under a Macron-declared ‘end of abundance.’

August 26, 2022